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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Join the development of the Smart Manufacturing Strategy?

By Conrad Leiva, MESA International Board Member

The governments of China, India and
the United States have all identified “Smart Manufacturing” as a strategic
lever for long-term economic growth. Similarly, the government of Germany
has Industrie 4.0. All these countries are looking to define how to
leverage the advances in modern Information Technologies to make manufacturing
a cog in their economic engines.

Manufacturing corporations, software vendors, and
industry experts are talking about modernizing manufacturing through IT with the
expectation of great economic impact, but Smarter Manufacturing will not happen
without people exchanging ideas and collaborating across the operations,
automation and information technology ranks.

MESA is opening our new
Smart Manufacturing Working Group and recruiting participants that bring
different perspectives to the conversation—different industries and different
roles, including end-users, vendors, educators, consultants and system
integrators. MESA is a safe place to develop and refine your organization’s
roadmap for Smart Manufacturing, discuss different approaches and compare
notes.

On the agenda for the new working
group, we have development of papers like “Demystifying Smart Manufacturing”
and "Leveraging Cloud Services for Smart Manufacturing Systems" and explanation
of topics including:

Industrial IoT, Industrie 4.0,
Digital Thread, Model-Based Enterprise

M2M, A2A, B2B, SOA Integration
Standards for Manufacturing

BPM and Workflow Manufacturing Use
Cases among global sites and the value chain

Join the conversation and the
development of practices and operating standards for future Smart
Manufacturing! You must be a MESA member to participate in MESA’s Working
Groups but it is easy to join at:

Also, please join us at the upcoming
MESA North America conference May 4 – 6 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Specifically, we will hold an unConference
session on Smart Manufacturing in which our working group will interact
directly with attendees to drive the discussion and refine our plans for
deliverables. Find out more about all
the unConference sessions at: http://conference.mesa.org/en/unConferences.asp
or the entire conference at: http://conference.mesa.org/en/.